The USA is speed running a destruction of trust in public institutions, supported by two thirds of the electorate and a majority of large American tech firms.
Somehow, inexplicably, people seem to think this will all go back to normal when Trump leaves office.
Reflect on how trusted and fact-based are they.
To me (who was growing under the Soviet puppet government), it's pretty much the same, up to and including secret prisons, the killings and kidnapping for wrongthink.
There's a chance we will go back to normal - the way New Yorkers respond to Mamdani gives me hope.
We'd have a chance with ranked pairs voting, which would naturally allow competing options to gradually gain support rather than the current two party duopoly. But getting that to be implemented would also require one of the above.
This is what happens when the easiest way to achieve power is by spreading FUD and not really caring about the actual task of governing.
We're just speed running it now.
That is not true? It is not the best, the money were used to make it dysfunctional. The congressional dysfunction is not due to bureaucracy. Conservative actors who want the government to fail, so they intentionally changed the rules so that it cant fix the issues.
Of course, congress can not do much in a two party system where one party is ideologically dedicated to obstruction and destruction. But, the right place to complain about that are conservatives, not the abstract government.
And no, conservative "actors" do not want the government to fail. Which party was it, again, who wants ICE to stop doing its job?
And yes, conservatives do want the government to fail. They are actively working on it.
Third, I did not said congress is "corrupt". As of now, the most corrupt are president, those around him and supreme court. Republicans in congress are acting in bad faith.
Good lord. You actually think the president and SCOTUS are more corrupt than Congress? Amazing.
There's an important distinction between wanting the government to fail, and wanting the government to cease violating civil liberties en masse.
There is a false dichotomy being manufactured/astroturfed by Republicans that the only choice is between the current Star-spangled Gestapo and unrestricted, mass illegal immigration.
In actual fact there is a broad spectrum of approaches between those two.
There's no Star-spangled Gestapo. That's just fever dreams on your part. And the reason we're here is because the Democrats facilitated and even encouraged mass illegal immigration.
And there are a lot of hapless pawns of large corporations rioting against ICE. Probably the same people who wonder why pay hasn't kept up with inflation.
I agree, and my comment should not be construed to imply otherwise. It's Americans themselves that are the problem, which is why the decay of America will long outlive Trump.